2 Chronicles 16:7

16:7 At that time Hanani the prophet ¹  visited King Asa of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied on the king of Syria and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

2 Chronicles 16:9

16:9 Certainly ²  the Lord watches the whole earth carefully ³  and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. ⁴  You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.

2 Chronicles 18:12

18:12 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. ⁵  Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success!” ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 18:14

18:14 Micaiah ⁷  came before the king and the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; they will be handed over to you.” ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 Jehoram ⁹  received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You ¹⁰  have not followed in the footsteps ¹¹  of your father Jehoshaphat and of ¹²  King Asa of Judah,

2 Chronicles 25:7

25:7 But a prophet ¹³  visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. ¹⁴ 

2 Chronicles 25:15-16

25:15 The Lord was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why are you following ¹⁵  these gods ¹⁶  that could not deliver their own people from your power?” ¹⁷  25:16 While he was speaking, Amaziah ¹⁸  said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” ¹⁹  So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided ²⁰  to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”

2 Chronicles 26:20

26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at ²¹  him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king ²²  himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.

2 Chronicles 30:9

30:9 For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The Lord your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you ²³  if you return to him.”

2 Chronicles 31:10

31:10 Azariah, the head priest from the family of Zadok, said to him, “Since the contributions began arriving in the Lord’s temple, we have had plenty to eat and have a large quantity left over. For the Lord has blessed his people, and this large amount remains.”

2 Chronicles 33:18

33:18 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets ²⁴  spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded ²⁵  in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho ²⁶  sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? ²⁷  I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. ²⁸  God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” ²⁹ 

[16:7]  ¹ tn Heb “the seer.”

[16:9]  ² tn Or “for.”

[16:9]  ³ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”

[16:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”

[18:12]  ³ tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”

[18:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “let your words be like one of them and speak good.”

[18:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[18:14]  ⁵ sn One does not expect Micaiah, having just vowed to speak only what the Lord tells him, to agree with the other prophets and give the king an inaccurate prophecy. Micaiah’s actions became understandable later, when we discover that the Lord desires to deceive the king and lead him to his demise. The Lord even dispatches a lying spirit to deceive Ahab’s prophets. Micaiah can lie to the king because he realizes this lie is from the Lord. It is important to note that in v. 13 Micaiah only vows to speak the word of his God; he does not necessarily say he will tell the truth. In this case the Lord’s word is deliberately deceptive. Only when the king adjures him to tell the truth (v. 15), does Micaiah do so.

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[21:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.

[21:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the ways of.”

[25:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “Israel, all the sons of Ephraim.”

[25:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “seeking,” perhaps in the sense of “consulting [an oracle from].”

[25:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “the gods of the people.”

[25:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “hand.”

[25:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “Stop yourself! Why should they strike you down?”

[25:16]  ¹⁰ tn The verb יָעַץ (ya’ats, “has decided”) is from the same root as יוֹעֵץ (yo’ets, “counselor”) in v. 16 and עֵצָה (’etsah, “advice”) later in v. 16. The wordplay highlights the appropriate nature of the divine punishment. Amaziah rejected the counsel of God’s prophet; now he would be the victim of God’s “counsel.”

[26:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “turned toward.”

[26:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[30:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “turn [his] face from you.”

[33:18]  ¹¹ tn Or “seers.”

[33:18]  ¹² tn Heb “look, they are.”

[35:21]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[35:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

[35:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

[35:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”